Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 190
For 700 years I have faithfully served the anchorite and now he has given me away in exchange for a woman.
Who acts: I · What happens: serve, give away · To what, where: anchorite, Lalia, me, exchange
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | 700 | 700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 served | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 served | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 served | aux |
| 6 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 7 served | advmod |
| 7 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 anchorite | det |
| 9 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 served | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 given | cc |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 given | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 served | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 given | iobj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 given | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 exchange | case |
| 18 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 woman | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 exchange | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present · perfect | I | the anchorite | year | faithfully property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anchorite=Attribute | ||
| 2 | give away | present · perfect · passive | Lalia | me | exchange for a woman | now | away property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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